MarioBassem / pied_piper

PiedPiper

PiedPiper, the name is totally original and has nothing to do with any TV shows, is a compression tool using Huffman Coding Trees.
I only built it for learning purposes, so use it at your own risk :D

Usage

• Download the binary for your platform:

  • https://github.com/MarioBassem/pied_piper/releases

• or, clone and build the application:

  git clone https://github.com/MarioBassem/pied_piper.git
  make build

• To encode a file:

  piedpiper path/to/decompressed_file path/to/generated/compressed_file

• To decode a file:

  piedpiper -decode path/to/compressed_file path/to/generated/decompressed_file

Testing

To run tests:

make test